From: Rick McCallister
Message: 67366
Date: 2011-04-25
Und kannst Du auch uff Daitsch ... schwätze or ... babbele? :-)>My German ancestors being Schwaben und Hessen had a large
>percentage of French surnames such as Sublet < Soublette, Nehs
>< Ney, Grass < de Grasse, Brascher < Brasseur, etc.
Ich spreche kein Deutsch --My German ancestors all came over 1680-1750. My grandfather still had a passive knowledge from his great-uncles who brought him up. So the language lasted about 200 in my family.